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Virtually any modern browser has a build-in date picker...

<input name="myfield" type="date" value="2014-06-27">

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Re^2: Recommended approach for dealing with user-entered dates in webapp
by pdxperl (Sexton) on Jul 27, 2014 at 06:30 UTC
    Thanks, Is this summary not accurate then? http://caniuse.com/input-datetime
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      For those browsers without support for type="date", the input field falls back to text entry.

      Also, there exists Modernizr.js, which is a useful shim to add support for recent HTML features to older browsers.

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        Oh cool -- thanks for that, I'll check it out!
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